Double Chocolate Porter
Saskatoon Brewery
- From:
- Saskatoon Brewery
- Saskatchewan, Canada
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.13 | pDev: 8.95%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 11, 2015
- Added:
- Jul 15, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by Mlkluther from Canada (AB)
3.5/5 rDev +11.8%
3.5/5 rDev +11.8%
On tap at Earls in Saskatoon. I really enjoyed this beer at the time.
Nov 23, 2014
Reviewed by CalgaryFMC from Canada (AB)
3.39/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.39/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
8 oz. on tap at Beer Revolution in Calgary. Hey, there's a new brewery in Saskatoon with a creative moniker. New to me at least. Um, yeah ... The beer is a dark cola brown color with some red tinting and rather minimal tan head, a half finger or so. Aroma is lilting roasted malts, rather mellow and non-offensive, a lactic sourness that grades into fruity, and yes, there's some milk chocolate there. Palate features roasted malts like weak black coffee, a surprising degree of fruitiness (raspberry and currant), and chocolate-covered raisins. Also detecting a nuttiness like almond nougat. Not an overly robust brew on the tongue, not insipid but not terribly inspiring either. Body is oddly thin and the carbonation is oddly high. Finish is dry and chalky. The tart fruitiness is a standout feature but the other elements are amped down to an undesirable degree.
Oct 01, 2014
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.31/5 rDev +5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.31/5 rDev +5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG downtown.
This beer appears a clear, very dark cherry cola-tinged brown colour, with one finger of weakly foamy, mildly creamy, and mostly bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent melting iceberg lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of roasted, kind of meaty caramel malt, meek bittersweet chocolate, wet ash, a bit of innocuous lactic sweetness, and weedy, leafy, and earthy hops. The taste is more bready, mostly pale malt, a further reduced gritty dry cocoa powder character, a milky chalkiness, soaked mineral notes, and kind of sour, musty, and leafy hops.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its manifestation, barely a whisper of frothiness to be had, the body on the light side of medium weight, and smooth with just a few too many caveats. It finishes more or less dry, that chalky element now out in full force, lording over any and all(?) chocolate and/or lingering maltiness.
For something dubbed (sorry) a 'double', one might expect that term to apply somewhere in the product itself. Since I can't see that anywhere here, especially in the obvious alcohol or guest cocoa vectors, I have to thus call shenanigans on this whole deal - an echo of the same sort of thing I experienced at the Brewsters location across the parking lot from here a few years ago.
Jul 15, 2014This beer appears a clear, very dark cherry cola-tinged brown colour, with one finger of weakly foamy, mildly creamy, and mostly bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent melting iceberg lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of roasted, kind of meaty caramel malt, meek bittersweet chocolate, wet ash, a bit of innocuous lactic sweetness, and weedy, leafy, and earthy hops. The taste is more bready, mostly pale malt, a further reduced gritty dry cocoa powder character, a milky chalkiness, soaked mineral notes, and kind of sour, musty, and leafy hops.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its manifestation, barely a whisper of frothiness to be had, the body on the light side of medium weight, and smooth with just a few too many caveats. It finishes more or less dry, that chalky element now out in full force, lording over any and all(?) chocolate and/or lingering maltiness.
For something dubbed (sorry) a 'double', one might expect that term to apply somewhere in the product itself. Since I can't see that anywhere here, especially in the obvious alcohol or guest cocoa vectors, I have to thus call shenanigans on this whole deal - an echo of the same sort of thing I experienced at the Brewsters location across the parking lot from here a few years ago.
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